Pedro Montes, a lawyer and owner of Gallery D21, has been dedicated to tracking and rescue works of the most iconic artists of the 70s and 80s, as Eugenio Dittborn, Carlos Paz Leppe and Errazuriz.
Exposure COLLECTION MONTES PEDRO aims to show the imagination of collectors through a “cabinet of curiosities” says the curator of the exhibition, Justo Pastor Mellado.
The exhibition opens on Saturday March 21 and runs until June 14 at the MUSEUM OF VISUAL ARTS, MAVI, located in José Victorino Lastarria 307, Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro.
If it comes to collecting, Pedro Montes (45) is one of the persons indicated to talk to. This lawyer and owner of Gallery D21 (New Lyon 19, Providence) is dedicated to rescuing works by prominent Chilean artists of the 70s and 80s, as in the case of Eugenio Dittborn and Lotty Rosenfeldt, who in the hard days of the dictatorship they positioned the national contemporary art and became even their referents.
His passion for collecting began acquiring autographs and manuscripts of poets like Vicente Huidobro and Enrique Lihn. But it was not until it passes through the studio of visual artist Eugenio Dittborn, which included the “drive” that relates the writing and drawing and determines the logic of procurement.
Thus it was that brought together a large collection that since March 21 will be open at the MUSEUM OF VISUAL ARTS, MAVI. The exhibition aims to show the imagination of collectors through the idea of ​​Cabinet, or “cabinet of curiosities”, as described by the curator of the exhibition, Justo Pastor Mellado.
The first of these cabinets is titled The initial stroke and includes drawings of Oscar Gacitúa, Germán Arestizábal, Eugenio Dittborn, Francisco Smythe, Juan Luis Martinez, Paul Langlois, Enrique Lihn, among others, where the defensive instinct of a group of artists is manifested of different origins, but share a similar intensity that corrodes the classical forms of social representations.
While the second is called transmission painting and displays a set of creations of Juan Domingo Davila, Bororo, Manuel Torres, and the same Dittborn. Some of these pieces belonged to the collection of Francisco Zegers. Both cabinets refer to works made between 1972 and 1982.
THE THIRD IS CALLED, THE TRUE IMAGE NAME AS TO THE HISTORY OF A PAINTING YOU HAVE FOBIA REPRESENTATION OF THE CORPORALITY.
Effects Travel is the name of the fourth and final cabinet, which corresponds to the exhibition of works by these artists in a given time was found in New York or Paris. They shared, under various conditions, a particular stay in one of two capitals, which subsequently found their work.